This is not the only source of criticism for the name.
Fans of BLACKPINK‘s Lisa have found an issue with the fandom name of a newly debuted HYBE group.
While K-Pop groups will be given an official fandom name, more often than not, fans of each member will assign themselves a name for just their favorite member. For example, NCT fans are known as NCTzens, but fans of Taeyong are known as TyongFs.
The same goes for BLACKPINK, with Lisa’s fans going by Lillies/Lilies for many years. Lisa has also acknowledged this, calling fans this name on multiple occasions.
Many of Lisa’s fans have found the newly announced fandom name for ILLIT too similar to that of the BLACKPINK member.
On April 21, KST, the group hosted a live broadcast on Weverse where the five members revealed the fandom name letter by letter to spell out “LILLY.”
While fans liked the choice, netizens were not as into it, criticizing the name for several reasons, including it being the actual name of NMIXX‘s Lily.
Lisa’s fans have joined this criticism, expressing their anger at HYBE for choosing a name similar to the existing ones:
- Lisa = lilies; Lilies = Lisa I’m sorry but that company is weird as hell, literally everyone knows that Lisa has had a fandom for years called LILIES even other companies and brands
- Lilies for Lisa
- Lisa is focusing more on her solo career now and even after bp disbands she needs a official fandom name and that’s lilies like why qrts saying it’s not official fandom name. This name has been used by only us for all these years and suddenly hybe stealing it. fck off hybe
- LILIES is a globally known fandom name of Lisa, nominated and won awards, have always trended, and recognized by Lisa’s brands and the media. HYBE should’ve done their research better like that other company who avoided it despite being in their fandom choices.
